Shooting Steel: Action Target RimFire Dueling Tree Target Review

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The Action Target's Rimfire Dueling Tree steel target is a ton of fun and a great way to train with the stress of competition while providing immediate feedback for accuracy training using the .22 rimfire round.
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[@TheLateBoyScout]

I've shot my share of AT steel, but still learned tons from this review. Great work!

[@Nate01693]

Hi Destinee, I've had mine for a little more than a year and no problems. Just need some 22s and blue paint. One mod I did do was replace the two nuts, that attach the feet to the tree, with wing nuts to make assembly and disassembly easier. I took it out last Friday with a couple buddies to the range and made it sing with two 10/22s with 25 round magazines and my new Henry Golden Boy. This target is well worth the money and will last forever.

[@actiontarget]

This video never gets old. Love it!

[@brotherskeepers111]

Great targets, have shot these many times as well as their AR 500 steel model. They make a great product

[@Royisme]

Thanks for nerding out on the metal :) the BH formula was nice to see, one of those curiosities I hadn't taken the time to look up previously.

[@flatophall]

THE best explanation of a steel-plate tree I've ever seen. Thanks! Your special.

[@victoday1]

A year between comments is far too long Destinee! Appreciate your thoroughness and "energy" that you have lol...I also want the rimfire plate rack esp. that now 22LR is under .04cents now! I just subscribed, so glad I found you when searching for rimfire targets!

[@Fgm1m2R2]

Looks like a lot of fun, I agree Lady D.... I've shot and directed the Steel Challenge competitions for many years at our local gun club, with one major rule change. NO copper or FMJ bullets, as we experienced unwanted ricochets(No Injuries). Shooting hard steel should be with lead only. The Dueling Tree looks like a lot of fun for sure!. Good review, well done!....Cheers Eh!....Blessings and Stay Safe :)

[@wowguy3562]

I've been on the fence wondering if I should buy one, your review caused me to pull the trigger and get one. Thank you young lady, you did an excellent review

[@Cr0cket20]

Great review. Wish I had one of those in the inventory. They are so much fun when I've shot with friends.

[@actiontarget]

If you have a retail store or online store, you can definitely become a dealer for us. Just get a hold of Chad Burdette ([e-mail]) to get the contract process started.

[@gle4068]

Thank you Destinee for this informative video! I couldn't find an in-depth video of this dueling tree until I found your channel. Also your discount helped a lot! :D Keep up the great work. Subscribed.

[@SneakyKittyGameDev]

you have a very enjoyable voice to listen to, may have convinced me to get one of these, thanks

[@richardklawrence64]

Yep... she was definitely your sister. Great vid. I'm looking forward to continued, excellent content. Thanks so much!

[@drmaudio]

Man those are fun, but it goes something like this: "On your mark, get set, GO! [brief flurry of gunfire]......Hey! where did all my loaded mags go? All these are empty!" and about 15 min later... " Did we leave the second brick at home? Where did all these empties boxes come from?" Stock up on ammo before you buy one of these!

[@WanderingBeast]

Nice work. Love me some 22. A little competition never hurt either 😉

[@HeliPadUSA]

Interesting that you shoot a right handed rifle left handed. 🤔 great video as I wanted to find more info about their company and product and you're pretty much it for a thorough review besides their sales videos. My wife and I will love this.

[@guns4funcajanajustin]

Lots of good info. On the steel!

[@GunsGearNFreedom]

FateofDestinee This was a great review and good science lesson. I love shooting steel. Was that a Ruger 10/22 rifle in this video? If so, what kind of mods were done to that rifle. It looked pretty sweet. Thanks for the video!

[@ArtisanTony]

Hey Des? What camera did you use for the slow motion? Nice!

[@JustinOpinionChannel]

Yeah, I'm curious about that too. There are two primary ways to produce slomo - hardware and software. I have hardware capable of 240fps and combined with software, I can get some nice effect - but I sacrifice much more clarity than Destinee seems to be. She must have more gooder stuff than me!!

[@asthmaticrhino]

Looks like software, most likely Twixtor

[@bigsamdog1]

Thank you, just ordered one and got the 15% discount you have down. Thanks again.

[@jdaz5462]

Fate ofDestinee Awesome! Gonna get one for the kids. Keep up the good work. Great channel!

[@tampabayblaster3086]

Thanks for all your work. Great family fun and no paper is huge.

[@locoray]

great video ; I am wanting to go to steel so bad but with large caliber but maybe I should start with lower ; again great informative video

[@drmaudio]

For a great challenge, compete with a buddy using .22 rifles prone from 150 yards or so. The ammo doesn't go quite as fast and it really tunes those fundamentals.

[@kingofcobwebs]

That was great. There is more charm in one FOD video than on every puppy farm in North America combined. haha Still, although it did not detract from the physical mechanics applied to lead bullets hitting steel, the explanation of physics here really only covered Newton's first fundamental Law of Motion (an object maintaining motion until being acted upon by another force was his first Law - the second Law being that acceleration is only produced when force acts upon mass.) Maybe you read the explanation that the conservation of energy was his first Law in a textbook or heard it from a professor, I don't know - this was a very enjoyable video for me anyway. It makes little difference I guess, and I would not bother typing any of this out tonight if I did not like your channel in general, but the law of conservation of energy developed from a general implication of the Laws of Motion (and I believe from Galileo's law of inertia.) I learned it studying thermodynamics, which states that energy can only move in or out of a system (because, like you said, it never really disappears - it has to go somewhere.)

[@deutz450]

In IPSC and cowboy action shooting we shoot steel from 7 meters (about 7,6 yards), so i think this is a safe minimum distance for steel shooting with handguns.

[@Spearfisher1970]

What an interesting YT channel. Subscribed. I like the rust / CLP / lube test vid you did, and that's what had me look at the rest of the channel.

[@FateofDestinee]

Spearfisher1970 Thanks!

[@ti11a]

Great informative review! Thanks for embracing your inner geek.

[@stevenshewfelt888]

where did you get or make your ammo bracelet?

[@pickin4you]

I have not seen any of your videos for months. Checked, and I still have it checked to send me updates, but have not been getting them. Finally decided to check today and found some new ones, and you just happen to be shooting a .22 pistol I have been looking at. Not sure why I am not getting the updates.

[@LilYeshua]

Great informative viddy. What 22 ammo are you partial to?

[@troy9er]

Very nice review Dest! Thumbs up up and up!!

[@FringeSniper]

Lots of great info, liked the review.

[@iandavidwolfe]

Great review Des! Love the Star Trek shirt BTW ;)

[@pfootball6363]

You said to only use .22 lr and that .17 hrm is too high velocity. What about .22 magnum? Is it safe to shoot it with .22 magnum?

[@actiontarget]

You should be fine with .22 Magnum, but I would stay away from stuff like the Hornady V-MAX .22. That's a little too hot of a round.

[@Joe-jq3ru]

Love the Star Trek shirt. Where did you get it?

[@jabberwookie1404]

SO what you're saying is, if it's not hard enough then injury could occur? Got it!

[@professorpewpuew]

That looks like a lot of fun. :)

[@bladesmilitariauk5013]

I would like to make a smaller, lighter version of this for home range air rifle plinking but not sure whether low kinetic energy pellets (12ft/lbs) would be enough to swing the custom made plates. Obviously they wouldn't even budge 4" 1/8th AR500 steel as they weigh too much say 2lbs approx each but if I used say 3" 1/16th aluminum I might be able to get the weight to something like 1/3rd of a pound & employ the same ideas so that even measily 20gr pellets moving at just 500fps cause the mini plates to swing right round with authority. I doubt that low powered air-rifles like this would cause any damage to say 1/16th aluminum even after hundreds of hits but obviously this needs testsing. Thanks Dest you have gave me a decent guide to start this exciting project :-)

[@wolf1066]

Years ago I saw a competition where they had two shooters each with a dueling tree and a limited amount of ammunition and it was a race to flip all the paddles on your tree - and you could also target your opponent's tree and flip some of their paddles *back*.

[@bladesmilitariauk5013]

Wolf's Airsoft Yeah head to head duelling is popular amongst target shooters in the states. It's the most fun game these duelling trees have to offer. Dest has a video showing her duelling with an opponent from about a year ago on a more substantial duelling tree owned by the range I think.

[@wolf1066]

The one I saw looked very exciting and engaging. They did Picture-in-Picture so you could see both the shooters and what was happening down-range (I've been saying for years they could use that technology to show the Olympic shooting events but the anti-gun media here won't televise shooting competitions - their excuse is "shooting events aren't exciting enough to televise", because they haven't the balls to stand up and say "we're prejudiced against shooting"). The tree I saw had small holes that the shooters had to shoot through to hit their own paddles but when the paddles flicked out, they were totally exposed to the opponent's fire. Another shooting event that looked good was a shotgun event with multiple throwers set up at different angles, including one that rolled the clay along the ground like a rabbit, from which clays were launched in random order and a lattice of hoops past which the clays flew. The hoops let judges see how close to the trap the clay was destroyed and they scored accordingly. Fucking AWESOME.

[@kingcobrahs]

good review, ordering one now, thanks!

[@99redcentaurs]

Nice video. Thanks for sharing it.

[@MrRdvs87]

were you just wearing a cape? hilarious.

[@JwReaper744]

cabon, nickel, and my lipton? they use iced tea to make steel targets?! holy quenched thirst batman you really do learn something new every day o_0"

[@TheMajHavoc]

Huh? I didn't see the tree shooting back how's that a duel? I thought you had a new and dangerous tree target! Something more interesting to shoot at. You know a challenge for me & my body armor Oooorah

[@RhosefRho]

Destinee have you ever thought of lending your voice for audio books? you have a pleasant voice. anyway good video. I want to get steel targets I just can not afford them.

[@wesweaver3311]

I love science!!!! great vid as always

[@7150285]

what does HB stand for? I know Bhn stands for brinell hardness scale

[@actiontarget]

The H stands for "hardness" and the B stands for "Brinell." When looking at steel hardness, it's also important to remember that there's a difference between Brinell Hardness Number and Brinell Hardness Rating. The BHN is the exact hardness of the material being tested (e.g., 479) while the rating actually covers a range of hardnesses (a steel plate rated as AR500 can actually have a BHN as low as 465). This is why we conduct our own hardness tests on all of the armor steel that arrives at our facility to ensure that it meets our specific and stringent hardness requirements.

[@7150285]

***** I want to order a AR550 armor target, is it possible that I can special order it from you guys?

[@actiontarget]

7150285 What type of AR550 target do you want to order? We have a bunch of different targets made of AR550 that you can choose from without having to special order anything. Go check out Store.ActionTarget.com.

[@7150285]

***** yes but anything AR550 half inch or 3 quarter inch that's rated for .50 BMG? What is the exact brinell number of the AR550 that y'all make? I'm attending Texas International Firearm Festival next weekend and I heard Action Target will be there to provide the targets and selling it there?

[@actiontarget]

7150285 We don't have anything available to the public yet that's rated for .50 BMG, but there is a new target coming out soon that can withstand some pretty major firepower. Keep an eye out for updates. We don't make the steel ourselves, but we source it from the handful of steel mills that are capable of making AR550 steel. We just do internal Brinell hardness testing on every shipment we get to make sure it meets our specs. I'm not sure what BHN range they use for the AR550 steel. We are going to be at the Texas International Firearms Festival this weekend. The targets that are being shot on won't be for sale, but we will have a tent there where you can buy steel targets.

[@THEZOMBIEBUNKER]

Been easier for many if base slipped on instead of bolted i suppose. Nice though.

[@actiontarget]

That's a really good point. We may incorporate that suggestion if and when we do a redesign of the Rimfire Dueling Tree.

[@scarmenl]

Just don't let the sound and movement of the target set you pace.

[@darwinfoto09]

The stuffed Koala bear so reminds me of Noozles!

[@taurushipointenthusiast1306]

These are cool as well......But I do prefer ground active targets a little more.....and clays I drill small holes in them and string em up....but I do have a few steel for when I`m out of clays....And I`m sorry to say geek speak has what some would consider an adverse effect on me.............Lets venture out with the wife is happy now as well.....

[@excelerater]

I noticed you stopped making videos.... :(

[@mohawksniper79]

Very cool gonna haft to make me one of those.you have some nice guns there lucky girl.nice shooting cant wait to see more of that m1a thats a sexie little rifle.

[@1964JEDAGI]

You had the koala bears attention. I didnt see him blink.

[@HARMARSCH2]

Nice review.

[@KevinUchiwa]

always so fun

[@kingdom777866]

One question.. Why do you shoot so near to the target, an 8yr old could hit them with his pop gun !

[@lammybowers4800]

Great video, but your understanding of Newtons laws is a bit lacking.

[@erichawkins1786]

all hail the "drop bear"

[@fsfazekas]

Star Trek shirt!!!! :-D

[@donbeam5426]

Great review, very well done. Always enjoy your talent! O[[[[[[O

[@mastalee1776]

LLAP!😁

[@borabon3120]

Nice koala lol

[@kennethcaloun5138]

ok ever try shoting the glass bottle to cut the top off and make drinking glass of the bottom of it my dad got me into this because he was so cheep as a kid coke glass caust about 8 bucks in 1963 yes i was 3 years old he wanted mom to think he was a big spender ever valintine day but it was cheeper to a 6pack of cokes and have your youngest kid tip the bottle with the bullet on the right side at the same line ever time and use fine grit sand paper the drinking glasses at 5cent for a coke and 1cent bullet and the sandpaper from his old tool box he spent about 50cent on her ever year till 1968 when found him out he maid about 2000 a month then lol he was cheep magor cheep lol naw ever one says it cant be dunn

[@shouldibehere]

Wonder Woman was there. :)

[@thedevilcomes2011]

cute Koala :D